Minor Major Power Warplans??

[Chris Ferrous]

Italy, Turkey, USA, and to some extent even Britain, in a non-naval sense anyway, could be considered to be minor major powers in the context of the game, and usually they do not enter the fray immediately, but get dragged into the war piecemeal.

Obviously, when a human player controls these powers there's no problem since the new forces are gratefully integrated into one's overall strategy, but does the AI have any pre-set attitudes, war plans, or objectives which guide its use of these tardy reinforcements?

I ask for two reasons:-

1) How well does the AI cope with using these new forces compared to the structured way (via warplans) that the initial armies are ranged across the map?

2) Is there a file that can be modded that could give greater guidance to the AI to operate these armies?

So far I've only experienced the AI handling Turkey and Italy and it seems to be competent enough given the relatively restricted nature of the mountain fronts their forces tend to be fighting in but it must be very difficult for the AI to handle Britain with its far flung interests and vast navy.

Has anyone any experience of how well the AI handles Britain?

Has anyone seen how the AI handles US forces?

[Random]

Has anyone seen how the AI handles US forces?

My experiance with the AI and the Americans has been limited but unhappy. See:

http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?t=17878

In another game they actually landed in France but sat in Le Havre for the duration. The USN however was agressive in the Atlantic and hurt the Kaiser's U-Boot Waffe throughout 1918.

Thought that overall the computer handled the continental allies reasonably well but have found the Americans and Japanese worse than useless. Now I play the two-player campaigns where the friendly AI is irrelevant. Sorry cannot be of more help.

[calvinus]

I agree with Random. The main problem for American AI is to plan a suitable plan to land the US Armies on the West Front.... a solution could be to "script" the US Army transfer to France/England as reinforcement.

[Chris Ferrous]

Scripting the US Army arrival in France in a similar way to the BEF would seem logical. I had supposed that would be the case.

Don't forget to add a script for the US Army to join the Central Powers! Just in case.

[Turbo823]

Has anyone done a script for the USA going to France? I mention this as I enjoying learning about this war and I really enjoy a good challenge.